Mission Design Engineer

Your mission

As a Mission Design Engineer, you will play a key role in helping design the constellations and space missions of tomorrow, ensuring the long-term sustainability of space activities by developing innovative solutions and helping customers design their missions. You will work across various teams, projects, and mission phases of a spacecrafts lifetime. With your technical expertise and problem-solving skills, you will design, analyze, and optimize systems that comply with international space debris guidelines and enhance the safety of our satellite operations.

Furthermore, by assessing mission designs, propulsion systems, and end-of-life disposal strategies, you will identify hidden risks and optimization opportunities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices. Your work will directly contribute to making space operations more sustainable and efficient. Last but not least while you should have a strong passion for space engineering, you should also be enthusiastic about software development as a regular part of your job.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Perform mission design optimization, mission analysis and debris mitigation compliance analyses for commercial and governmental customers.
• Develop products, such as, software for our mission design and compliance product that models the space environment and subsequently performs analyses.
• Participate in writing proposals for the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
• Take responsibility for work packages as part of projects, including implementation, analyses and documentation efforts.

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Why us?

About us

OKAPI : Orbits is at the forefront of space sustainability, addressing some of the most pressing challenges of the space industry : the growing problem of crowded orbital regimes, and the need for more efficient satellite operations. We're providing end-to-end solutions that help various space industry players cover their Space Situation Awareness (SSA), and Space Traffic Management and Coordination (STM & STC) needs. We are committed to safeguarding space missions and access to space for all humanity. Join us on our mission.

Last but not least, we would like to share with you that research shows that women are  less likely to apply for a position unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements.

Please know that if it’s your case — but you are passionate about space technology, building reliable software, and contributing to a more sustainable space environment — we strongly encourage you to apply.

OKAPI : Orbits already brings together a highly diverse team, and we actively continue to strengthen this diversity which allows us to achieve higher performance and drive innovation.